{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-of-land-vesting-declarations-wales-regulations-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-of-land-vesting-declarations-wales-regulations-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Compulsory Purchase of Land (Vesting Declarations) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-of-land-vesting-declarations-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Acquisition of Land, Wales\nMade 8 March 2017\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 14 March 2017\nComing into force 6 April 2017\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 2, 4 and 6 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 and now exercisable by them, make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definition of “prescribed” in subsection (1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 66. Section 4(1) was amended by section 184 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22). Section 6(1) was amended by section 183 of, and paragraphs 4 and 7 of Schedule 15 to, that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/362/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}